Archived A final warning to guests (Another Hatchimal story)

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OopsChargeback said:
Every morning for the last couple weeks people have been lining up at 3am in the hopes of buying a hatchimal. We get maybe one case a day. I'm a toy collector myself, but no way I'm hanging out in the freezing cold for a toy, not even for my beloved GI Joe figures. I'd rather pay a premium on ebay than freeze my nuts off.

The Hot Wheels guys who come in every morning are good guests. They don't touch the pallets or tubs, if they see something on a pallet or tub they ask one of us to pull it off, and they don't get snippy if we don't have a particular tiny car in stock.
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Had to get a bit testy with a guy on Friday. I walk through the main aisle just in time to see him pull a case off of a pallet to look through. Huh-uh. Sorry, buddy.



glo said:
One of the hot wheels guys that frequents my store will ask us if we have a case in the back when he thinks we're lighter than we should be. He'll take the case, go through it, and actually hang what he's not purchasing. Always a delight to see him.
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This is not allowed, according to our ETL-AP. Guests have to shop what's on the floor, they can't shop cases.
 
Dragonlady said:
This is not allowed, according to our ETL-AP. Guests have to shop what's on the floor, they can't shop cases.
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No one cares, were are making a sale. We let people sort though assorments all the time as long as they agree to buy something
 
OopsChargeback said:
Every morning for the last couple weeks people have been lining up at 3am in the hopes of buying a hatchimal. We get maybe one case a day. I'm a toy collector myself, but no way I'm hanging out in the freezing cold for a toy, not even for my beloved GI Joe figures. I'd rather pay a premium on ebay than freeze my nuts off.

The Hot Wheels guys who come in every morning are good guests. They don't touch the pallets or tubs, if they see something on a pallet or tub they ask one of us to pull it off, and they don't get snippy if we don't have a particular tiny car in stock.
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You are very lucky. my hotwheels colectors are pricks.
 
glo said:
One of the hot wheels guys that frequents my store will ask us if we have a case in the back when he thinks we're lighter than we should be. He'll take the case, go through it, and actually hang what he's not purchasing. Always a delight to see him.
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At least he hangs them.

If you're gonna be a crazy collector, don't be a jackass.
 
Hardlinesmaster said:
My collectors will push the case & fill the pegs for me.
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I find this incredibly endearing for some reason.

The Hot Wheel guy at my store was a grumpy old man who always left the aisle smelling like smoke for a solid 10min after he shopped. Haven't seen him in nearly a year though- not sure if he stopped coming in or if I'm just not seeing him because I'm in the back.
 
So tired of this Hatchimal bullcrap. We have LITERALLY been out as soon as they come in for MONTHS and MONTHs....like I believe people were asking for them around the end of summer? maybe early fall and kept hearing about it on the radio about being out of them. Thankfully im Market but it just cracks me up

Its even worse for the NES release. Its like...the games and system have been out what...20 something years now. I think you will be OK if you dont get it RIGHT NOW
 
Pelon1071 said:
What do you mean I will be OK... I won't be ok, where is your manager, who is your manager, I can't even right now... hold my Starbucks. I NEED THIS NOW BETCH!
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Do you know who my husband is? I will personally have him calm the ceo and get you fired....smdh. our guests are the best when they don't get their way. Married to people earning a quarter mill a year or so...
 
I don't think you know who I am and who you're dealing with here. I will have you know my son/daughter is the specialist of all the snowflakes that have ever graced this earth. They are better than all the other children who want a Hatchimal this Christmas. You should have known my special snowflake wanted this and that we're better than everyone else. You should have held it for me. I should have a reserved parking spot too when I arrive to claim my Hatchimal.
 
Whenever a guest acts like this regarding a toy, I just think "you probably don't say 'no' enough to your kid(s) and you're afraid that they won't be able to cope if they don't get that Furbinator 2: Judgement Day." And then I hope that karma will one day give them a spoiled, delusional child that flunks out of art school and brings them great dishonor to their household.
 
Actually, this is funny but after the people constantly showing up looking for the things, I learned to recognize the box on the line its self and deliberately shoved it into the department I would working. I kept it until 8:30. Heard on the radio if anyone had seen the hatchimals. That was the only time it actually made it to the shelf. When I was done with my department, TM doing pulls went by me and I handed the box off to him and said it was put on the wrong pallet. It needs to go to E10.

Now, they go our cage and stay until 8. We actually give tickets out if you are outside before 8.

As for Guests touching frieght pallets, ap would have not let them finish. They would have been escorted out.
 
Flabbergasted said:
I don't think you know who I am and who you're dealing with here. I will have you know my son/daughter is the specialist of all the snowflakes that have ever graced this earth. They are better than all the other children who want a Hatchimal this Christmas. You should have known my special snowflake wanted this and that we're better than everyone else. You should have held it for me. I should have a reserved parking spot too when I arrive to claim my Hatchimal.
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I had a guest stop me at not my store. I'd stopped after work for something my site was out of. She chased me down, trekked at me then started the "do you know who my husband is" crap. I asserted I did not, but did he know Mr. Local real estate family? Cause I'd love to call him up and pass on a name for his black list of assholes to not do business with...my husband isn't famous, but he works for puerile with lots of $$$ and they love him. Lol. Bitch almost had a heart attack right there...sadly I could never get away with that while working in my store.
 
Had 6 in this morning. Only 2 peeps in line at opening to get tickets for them. Other 4 went to Toys. God only knows what happened from there. (No alerts about blood on this morning, So hopefully oir remaining HatchWhatevers are coming to life calmly and will not evolve to devour entire cities.
 
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